Each week Tom Whitwell of Music Thing highlights the best of the new music gear that's coming out, as well as noteworthy vintage equipment: Modular analog synthesizers are big, expensive, unreliable ...

Everyone loves playing music stoned, but the (high) times they are a-changing. No disrespect to Bob Dylan covers strummed on “the quad” or psychedelic arsenals of guitar pedals, but these are ...

Dubbed simply the 16, 170 and 400, these new devices are what Teenage Engineering is proudly calling "the poor man's modular." They're reasonably priced introductions to the complicated and often ...

Sam Prekop may be most familiar to astute listeners as the frontman of eclectic Chicago band the Sea & Cake, but he’s also built a robust catalog of modular synth-driven projects as a solo artist and ...

The cosmic commandos at Moog Music are bringing back some classic synthesizers from the golden age of electronic music. These aren't just any keyboards, mind you, but three Cadillacs of bleep-bloop, ...

A few years ago, Moog dipped into its substantial synth archives and announced a limited production run of some 1970s modular behemoths. Now, nearly 50 years after the Moog 10 compact modular ...

On this week’s episode of Lost Notes, composer and synth wizard Suzanne Ciani tells contributor Michelle Macklem the story of her journey in modular synthesis. Ciani’s story is one of breaking through ...

Celebrating the company's DIY legacy, Moog Music has launched a semi-modular build-it-yourself analog synthesizer called Mavis, which delivers the unmistakable Moog sound in a compact, wallet-friendly ...

Artist Arushi Jain’s upcoming album offers something that music fans may not have heard before. The Indian American engineer-turned-musician/vocalist blends modular synths and electronic music with ...

What if you had a spaceship console installed in a sunlit corner of your living room? And what if, with the twist of a few knobs, you could navigate to the outer reaches of consciousness, all without ...

If you like building things, electronic music and want to learn about synthesizers, a modular synthesizer is a perfect option for you. Audio synthesis is the creation of electronic sounds by ...

In recent weeks, ambient modular synth videos have started popping up more frequently on YouTube. The videos center on the gear, with hands coming in and out of frame to slowly adjust a knob or push a ...